Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 33. INSURANCE AND INSURANCE COMPANIES

CHAPTER 20. LIFE INSURANCE

Part 1. Policy Provisions

Incontestability -- Limitation On Liability After Reinstatement Of Life Insurance Or Annuity

33-20-119. Incontestability -- limitation on liability after reinstatement of life insurance or annuity. (1) A reinstated policy of life insurance or annuity contract may be contested on account of fraud or misrepresentation of facts material to the reinstatement only for the same period following reinstatement and with the same conditions and exceptions as the policy provides with respect to contestability after original issuance.

(2) When any life insurance policy or annuity contract is reinstated, such reinstated policy or contract may exclude or restrict liability to the same extent that such liability might have been or was excluded or restricted when the policy or contract was originally issued, and such exclusion or restriction shall be effective from the date of reinstatement.

History: En. Sec. 322, Ch. 286, L. 1959; R.C.M. 1947, 40-3828.